Re: [Gaim-cabal] Names

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

On 8/10/06, Mark Doliner <ma...@ki...> wrote:
> Who should register those?  Anyone, and then that person would be reimbursed
> by the nonprofit?  I can do it if you want.  FYI, I heard a rumor that the
> Isle of Man plans to start selling domains like pidgin.im later this year.

Luke has been taking care of this sort of thing. We already have
imfreedom.org; he's leaving on vacation this weekend. If we decide
what domains we want this weekend, he can register them for us on
Monday.

> Do we still have a lot of money from Google SoC?  Can we move away from
> sourceforge?  What about leasing a server somewhere?  Maybe from linode.com?
> How many months could we go at $80 a month?  Luke, don't you work for a
> colocation company?  Do you think they'd be willing to provide a free or
> discounted rate for an open-source project?  Are requirements aren't huge:
> Apache, php, svn, ssh, and a lot of bandwidth (I estimate between 2GB and 10GB
> a month).

Luke's employer has already volunteered to do this all for free. We'll
still want to use sf.net for download mirrors, though. We push a lot
of bits. I've already asked Steven Garrity (mozilla.org, digg.com,
gaim.sf.net) about redoing the webpage.

> What's our release strategy?  Announce the non-profit and the name change
> within the next month?  Then release 2.0.0 sometime after that, once all the
> major bugs are gone?

I'd like to do everything in one fell swoop, releasing Pidgin 2.0.0
and announcing the non-profit. We may want to use the publicity from
all this for fundraising, so we're not totally dependent on summer of
code monies. I know Google would be willing to donate a bunch; this is
something the non-profit should arrange later.

> Once we have a new logo I think we should set up some kind of e-store.
> Possibly at Cafepress or Zazzle.

Definitely. We need some tee-shirts. We can get better quality than
cafepress, though. The place right next to my school makes the shirts
for GNOME (hackerthreads.com).